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Protesters call for a hard Brexit near 10 Downing Street, in London, Britain. Photograph: Hayoung Jeon/EPA
Fintan O’Toole: Brexit resurrects the English cult of heroic failure

Listening to Theresa May’s big Brexit speech last week, I remembered that the English have a taste for heroic failure. Their favourite poem, Rudyard K(...)

Runner and writer Michael Collins at Saint Croix, Quebec
Remembering 20,000 Famine refugees who died in 1847
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  • November 26, 2016, 06:00

Within the Famine memorial fundraising community, there’s a phenomenon quietly referred to as “famine fatigue”, which tacitly acknowledges that, in th(...)

Michael Collins running along the Thousand Islands Parkway, Ontario.
In Famine’s footsteps: trail of death leads to Skeleton Park

The Irish Diaspora Run sees Michael Collins running almost 900km between June 10th and July 10th, from Grosse Île to Toronto(...)

Detached grandeur in Dartry for €4.95million

Before the Milltown Luas stop opened at the end of Temple Road, few people had reason to pass down that wide, leafy road in Da(...)